[Click] click-elem2man crashes in PlanetLab Europe nodes

[Christos Tsilopoulos]

Eddie,

thank you for looking into this. I haven't tried re-installing click in 
PLE nodes yet. If the error persists, I 'll follow your advice.

Best,
Christos

On 9/1/2012 7:57 μμ, Eddie Kohler wrote:
> Hi Christos,
>
> Well, badly compiled perls stink. I rewrote this code; maybe that will
> allow installation. In future if you still have problems what you should
> just do is disable the installation of man pages, by editing
> doc/Makefile.in.
>
> Eddie
>
>
> On 12/16/11 1:04 PM, Christos Tsilopoulos wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I 've been trying to install click in several Planetlab Europe (PLE)
>> nodes without success. I 've tried with both v2.0.1 and the latest from
>> git. The source compiles (make works) but failed to be installed. The
>> output I get during make install is the following
>>
>> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/auebple_PSI/click-git/doc'
>> INSTALLMANPAGES /usr/local/share/man
>> CLICK-ELEM2MAN -d /usr/local/share/man/mann
>> Modification of a read-only value attempted at ./click-elem2man line 231.
>> make[1]: *** [install-man] Error 25
>>
>> If I understand correctly, the crash occurs while executing the
>> click-elem2man perl script. It reports line 231 which is the first line
>> of this function
>>
>> sub nroff_manref ($$$$) {
>> map { $_ = "\"$_\"" if (s/\"/\\(dq/g) } @_; /* LINE 231 */
>> my($x);
>> if ($_[0] eq "") {
>> $x = "\n.M " . $_[1] . " " . $_[2];
>> } else {
>> $x = "\n.RM " . $_[0] . " " . $_[1] . " " . $_[2];
>> }
>> $x .= " " . $_[3] if $_[3] ne "";
>> $x . "\n";
>> }
>>
>> Unfortunately my perl skill are very limited (to zero) and I can't
>> understand what's going on. The strange thing is that the issue occurs
>> only in PLE nodes (tried a few), but not in my personal workstation
>> (ubuntu 11.04). For the record, PLE nodes have perl v5.8.8 installed.
>>
>> Best,
>> Christos
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